pick up one's crumbs

== English == === Verb === pick up one's crumbs (third-person singular simple present picks up one's crumbs, present participle picking up one's crumbs, simple past and past participle picked up one's crumbs) (slang, archaic) To recuperate or recover, such as after an illness or injury. ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary